Last Norton Commando Sells for $30,748! (2011)

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The bike carries frame, engine and transmission number 336539, and has never been registered. The seven miles showing on its odometer have been accrued simply from being moved around over the years. Bonhams’ says the bike hasn’t been started since it was given its factory test upon completion in 1977. Some 50,000 Commando were built between the model’s 1968 introduction and Norton’s final closure only nine years later. It has since become one of the most iconic British motorcycles of all time, along with larger and more prolific Triumph and smaller and more regarded Vincent. – Richard Backus

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Last Norton Commando Sells for $30,748! (2011)
 
O.K. I ve been waiting for the oppertunity to bring this up....
Did I dream this, or read it in Classic Bike......
Article a couple of years ago ? about a big find of Norton Interstate Mk 111, a dozen or
so still in their boxes., found in warehouse of deceased Dealer. Europe somewhere.
To be auctioned off.
Anyone...
AC.
 
AC - yeh there was a while back, there were pictures posted of it to on here, they were all still in crates, im pretty sure it was in Germany? Some of the other guys will remember...
 
Hi.
One of them was sold here to Finland. I dont know how mutch he pay for it. I think that all was auctioned via internet. I was there when it arrived. It is in his factory office now for a show.
Cheers
Olli :D
 
Gee the old eye balls would have popped pretty well if I had have found them.
I CAN SEE DOLLAR SIGNS CLICKING OVER.
AC.
 
L.A.B. said:
Short memory, hobot?
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Ah,c'mon - it's hard to read the topics if you're flying in ground effect on parallel universe gravel roads at super sonic speed with a twin-turbo triple supercharged water injection nitroglycerimethanol-eating Commando-propelled WIG. :mrgreen:

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Tim
 
I posted about this bike some weeks ago, and the consensus then was that it wasnt the real thing, and just a bike which had been built out of spare parts, long after the factory itself closed................person that paid $30k obviously didnt think so though.
 
I think it would be the stamped numbers more than the poorly machined parts that make it what it is. Graeme
 
If it was a "77", then it ISN'T EVEN CLOSE to the "last Norton built".

They are STILL building the exact same bikes.

There has been a lot of debate as to whether this was even actually the last FACTORY built Norton.
 
Bonhams is a world renown auction house, and the value of clear misrepresentation's as to the vehicles they are selling seems unclear?
 
The fact is, there may never be universal agreement on which was the actual "last" Norton built (at least at the factory). As long as those in disagreement can substatiate thier argument to essentially equal degrees, a true and final claim cannot be legitimately asserted.
 
Oh, heck, I'm also convinced that a completed sale is what it is; my statement only surrounds the validity of the claim that the Norton they sold was actually the "last" one built.

IN MY OPINION, the fact that is sold for that amount does absolutely nothing to substantiate the claim made by the previous owner. it just means it is a late model Commando build that sold for a lot of money.
 
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